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Dave Fisher dies at 69; founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen
Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962, has died. He was 69.
Fisher died Friday at his...Tags: Television, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Entertainment, Creedence Clearwater Revival (music group)
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Saturday's TV Highlights: Steve Earle performs on 'Austin City Limits'
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Jan 24 - 30, in PDF format This week's TV Movies SINGER-SONGWRITERS: Country misfit Steve Earle (above) and classic rock legend Kris Kristofferson perform in a new episode of 'Austin...... -
Grammy rehearsals 2010: Gonna get loud
Pop & HissPerformers including Pink, Jamie Foxx and T-Pain are put through their paces in the lead-up to Sunday's extravaganza. In this era of award show proliferation, it's hard not to smirk at the "once-in-a-lifetime" advertising campaigns for shows such as the..... -
A new 'Star Is Born' with Russell Crowe? Is this a bad, really bad idea?
The Big PictureWhen I first read my colleagues Steven Zeitchik and Rachel Abramowitz's intriguing post about a new film where the male lead plays an "aging, alcoholic musician who mentors/is schooled by--and then finds romance with--a younger female star," I thought... -
Wednesday's Highlights: Adam Richman chows down on Travel Channel
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 28 - March 6 in PDF format This week's TV Movies MEATY: Adam Richman hosts the new food-themed travelogue "Man vs. Food Presents Carnivore" at 9 p.m. on Travel....... -
A sound check along the Memphis-to-Nashville 'Music Highway'
Special to The Los Angeles TimesMemphis, Tenn. Knowing how obsessed Elvis fans can be, I wasn't surprised when my wife and I drove up to the Heartbreak Hotel and found, true to the song's lyrics, that it was actually "down at the end of Lonely Street" and that the desk clerk was...Tags: Brad Paisley, Minority Groups, Aretha Franklin, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Butter
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Steven Bach dies at 70; United Artists executive, author
As a studio executive at United Artists, Steven Bach presided over one of the most notorious debacles in movie history -- the making of 1980's "Heaven's Gate" -- an experience he would later write about in what would become a classic in the Hollywood...Tags: The Deer Hunter (movie), Movies, Artists, Entertainment, Fine Artists
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Ah, to be young
Keith Gessen's sad young men -- interns, editorial assistants, doctoral candidates, would-be novelists -- are an apprentice generation among New York's intellectual/literary circles. They spiral out of college spouting "The truth shall make you free"...Tags: Depression, Ice Cream, Lifestyle and Leisure, Al Gore, Book
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Country music finds a Western home at Stagecoach
Times Staff WriterINDIO — The first Stagecoach festival came to a close on Sunday with the prospect of losing money, but also with a big-boned optimism about its future as 55,000 fans over two days came to hear Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, George Strait and 50...Tags: AEG, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Arts and Culture, Alan Jackson, George Strait
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A whole lot of country at Stagecoach Festival
Times Staff WriterINDIO — "Do you guys out here like the real, hard-core, traditional bluegrass music?" Jamie Dailey, of the fast-picking band Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, inquired Sunday afternoon at the Stagecoach Festival here. Those gathered at his feet roared...Tags: Sugarland (music group), Athens, Alison Krauss, Scarlett Johansson, Kenny Chesney
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'A Guitar and a Pen,' edited by Robert Hicks, John Bohlinger and Justin Stelter
A Guitar and a Pen
Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters
Edited by Robert Hicks, John Bohlinger
and Justin Stelter
Center Street: 258 pp., $23.99
O irony of ironies.
Here I spend half my life trying to pass as a member of the...Tags: Patsy Cline, Blaise Pascal, Music Industry, Vince Gill, Robert Hicks
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Hayes Carll comes in from the cold
Special to The TimesNASHVILLE -- Hayes Carll, 32, arranges his long limbs around a high-top table in the bar of a trendy Nashville restaurant. He's clearly out of place, but frequenting these locales comes with the new visibility he's earned as one of the most talked about...Tags: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Waylon Jennings, Entertainment, Steve Earle
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